Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with five bands, fiddlers and jugglers introducing each of nine courses, and a wild array of plumage on all the Beautiful People that was a direct result of their host's request that they wear "garden formal." What is garden formal? LeRoy answered his question by wearing a gold-spangled suit with spangled blue-gold rep tie and rhinestone-studded glasses that made him resemble a well-padded Elton John...
Potysman, Harvard's answer to Lloyd Mumphord, came within a Gatorade drop of blocking punts on two occasions last week and Clemens says "he'll definitely cause some probelms before the season is over." A few more problems like Potysman and the guys in the gold pants will be in there, like lemonade...
...pragmatists, respectively. Even this pair of labels, which look to convey the unfriendly notions of revolutionary fervor and steady common sense, derive significance from the writer's cultural attitudes and experiences. Here the terms are being applied to a complex, fairly inaccessible society by Americans, and Thomas B. Gold, a fourth-year graduate student in Sociology, points out that the transfer may be too glib. Gold, who visited the People's Republic a year ago, says, "You go to China and you see it in action, and you cannot understand what they're doing there in our terms. What...
Government professor Hofheinz echoes Gold's dissatisfaction with the ability of open-ended labels to get to the crux of Chinese politics. The analogies the widely used factional terms conjure up, he says, "are quite inaccurate. In fact, political factions are not oriented around issues of moderate versus radical, but guns versus rice, central versus local control, equality of education versus political control over it--real live issues about which we know nothing in terms of alignment, or know only by implication...
...from the U.S. two-party system of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter--two men of relatively similar outlooks--this questioning process is basic to China, an initial step toward grasping China on its own terms. Grad student Gold chooses the phrase "uninterrupted" revolution to describe the process's constant resolution through change. Gold believes the label "permanent" revolution smacks too much of anarchy or unending chaos...